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12 months ago ::
Jun 10, 2012 - 11:58PM
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I would think that if they were going to reprint dragonfodder they would have at least named it something a little more generic. Two core sets from now we're going to see a new version of this card called "Goblincall".
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12 months ago ::
Jun 11, 2012 - 12:40AM
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You've taken a card that was very universal and slapped a proper noun on it. Dragon Fodder is a favorite card of mine. It's name is funny without being too goofy. It hits the sweet spot. It's just the perfect thing to call a pair of goblin tokens.
Calling a pair of Gobin tokens "dragon fodder" only works if you can feed them to a dragon, and since Exalted is back in M13, Devour wont be. Its not even like the tokens have flying so you can use them to chump block a dragon, either.
Oh and this:
Exact reprints containing the name of new legends are what allows "eight-ofs" in a deck.
~ Tim
 Reached DCI Rating 1800 on 28/10/11. :D Sig
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That makes no sense to me.
If they spelled the ability out on the card in full then it would not be allowed in a mono-black Commander deck, but because they used a keyword to save space it is allowed?
~ Tim
Yup, just like you can have Birds of paradise  in a mono green deck but not Noble Hierarch  . YAY COLOR IDENTITY 
Is algebra really that difficult?
Survey says yes.
You want to make a milky drink. You squeeze a cow.
I love this description. Like the cows are sponges filled with milk. I can see it all Nick Parks claymation-style with the cow's eyes bugging out momentarily as a giant farmer squeezes it like a squeaky dog toy, and milk shoots out of it.
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12 months ago ::
Jun 11, 2012 - 2:00AM
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I do think, for example, "Divination" is worthwhile over the servicable "councel of the soratami." It's a more elegant and universal image, easier for a new player to absorb (Even though you do trade away the mystery the original provided in the core set. "Who are the soratami?" you might have wondered, and "Why does everybody want their concel? . . . How deep does this Magic rabbit hole go?")
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But this preview has me totally scratching my head. Now you are going the opposite direction. You've taken a card that was very universal and slapped a proper noun on it. Dragon Fodder is a favorite card of mine. It's name is funny without being too goofy. It hits the sweet spot. It's just the perfect thing to call a pair of goblin tokens. You could switch up the art and flavor text and this card would be welcome in just about any Magic block that didn't mind having goblin tokens around. More relevant to what I was saying: It's more universal. More of a fantasy trope. But now you've got new players asking: "Who is Krenko?"
The difference being that you can find out the second by cracking more packs from the same (in-print, standard-legal) set, whereas the first is a throwback to something less relevant today. Althought it would be cool to see a Counsel of the Soratami  with Tamiyo, the Moon Sage  art =)
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12 months ago ::
Jun 11, 2012 - 2:03AM
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Don't like Krenko bring printed in a core set. I started back when Magic had books to accompany it, during Masques specifically. I liked the Legends for the same reason the people who created them did: I felt that Legends created crossover appeal between Magic and roleplaying games, as do planeswalkers. They created a character for you to identify with. Even better, they allowed you to tell your own stories about the games you played. Even now, as I'm trying to become competitive at levels higher than FNM, I still love playing occasional games with my friends where we dive deep into the flavor of the game and describe our card's actions as we cast them. I feel that printing a Legend in a core set robs Krenko of that opportunity, because he has no story. He has no rivals, no friends, only two flimsy minions, and no defining struggle. He doesn't have much character at all, which makes the Legendary addition pointless and feel wrong, especially since writers in R&D like yourself frequently talk about their general dislike for Legendary, due to it being a downside-only mechanic.
Also, about renaming Dragon Fodder- I don't like the new name, but I don't think you should have kept the old one. Flavorfully, the old name wouldn't have made sense. But the new name means that, when indulging my inner Vorthos, I can't call upon these particular goblins without also obtaining the allegiance of their master, who I won't be putting in any of my decks.
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12 months ago ::
Jun 11, 2012 - 5:58AM
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The puns in this article don't work in a British accent; "Duel" is pronounced with two syllables, "DYOO-ul", to rhyme with "Jewel". It was only at the last one that I even figured out what pun Maro was trying to make -.-;; Then there were some "new" old cards that were more fiddly, "Essence Scatter" is a more blue thing to do than "Remove Soul", i guess, but ultimately wasn't remove soul pretty much fine?
As they said at the time, "Remove Soul" sounds like a black kill spell. It doesn't make sense that it's something you can only do as a spell is being cast.
The difference being that you can find out [who the Soratami are] by cracking more packs from the same (in-print, standard-legal) set, whereas the first is a throwback to something less relevant today. Althought it would be cool to see a Counsel of the Soratami with Tamiyo, the Moon Sage art =)
Counsel of the Soratami was reprinted in Tenth Edition, which was 1997; Champions of Kamigawa was 1994, so I don't think there were many other Soratami references in XED.
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12 months ago ::
Jun 11, 2012 - 7:53AM
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Continuing the trend of focusing on the advanced players, each deck has a larger pool of cards to unlock and thus more customization available. Part of the fun of Magic is optimizing your deck and Duels 2013 gives you more opportunity to do that.
Let me know when you can just make a 60 card deck and play it. I bought DotP once. I won't do so again unless that is the case. I don't want 'more opportunity to do that'. I want to DO THAT.
You can do that since the last version of the game, DotP 2012.
WotC doesn't care about flavor. Their forum is the only place where an ORC can kill a troll...
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12 months ago ::
Jun 11, 2012 - 8:34AM
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The puns in this article don't work in a British accent; "Duel" is pronounced with two syllables, "DYOO-ul", to rhyme with "Jewel". It was only at the last one that I even figured out what pun Maro was trying to make -.-;;
I still dont see it...?
~ Tim
Reached DCI Rating 1800 on 28/10/11. :D Sig
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That makes no sense to me.
If they spelled the ability out on the card in full then it would not be allowed in a mono-black Commander deck, but because they used a keyword to save space it is allowed?
~ Tim
Yup, just like you can have Birds of paradise in a mono green deck but not Noble Hierarch . YAY COLOR IDENTITY
Is algebra really that difficult?
Survey says yes.
You want to make a milky drink. You squeeze a cow.
I love this description. Like the cows are sponges filled with milk. I can see it all Nick Parks claymation-style with the cow's eyes bugging out momentarily as a giant farmer squeezes it like a squeaky dog toy, and milk shoots out of it.
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12 months ago ::
Jun 11, 2012 - 10:41AM
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Continuing the trend of focusing on the advanced players, each deck has a larger pool of cards to unlock and thus more customization available. Part of the fun of Magic is optimizing your deck and Duels 2013 gives you more opportunity to do that.
Let me know when you can just make a 60 card deck and play it. I bought DotP once. I won't do so again unless that is the case. I don't want 'more opportunity to do that'. I want to DO THAT.
You can do that since the last version of the game, DotP 2012.
Blatant lies. You get to choose the nonland cards for each deck, but only out of a preset pool of 40 or so different cards with no ability to obtain more copies of cards that are singleton. There's no way to even use cards you've unlocked in other decks. So you can't put a copy of Sword of War and Peace  in Nissa's deck, for instance, even if you've unlocked it for Gideon's deck.
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12 months ago ::
Jun 11, 2012 - 11:10AM
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Counsel of the Soratami was reprinted in Tenth Edition, which was 1997; Champions of Kamigawa was 1994, so I don't think there were many other Soratami references in XED.
What do you mean exactly? Having to reprint silliness like Counsel of the Soratami is one of the reasons M10 got the overhaul it did.
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12 months ago ::
Jun 11, 2012 - 12:05PM
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May 25, 2012
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Since when has Duels of the Planeswalkers on iOS? i can't find it, would somebody please link me to the app store page or something?
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